Gary Grif­fith has re­signed from the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA), a par­ty he found­ed in 2022.

He said he will be step­ping away from pol­i­tics and fo­cus­ing on his fam­i­ly, at least for now.

In a state­ment from NTA’s com­mu­ni­ca­tion unit yes­ter­day, it was re­vealed that he re­signed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect and sev­er­al of his mem­bers have fol­lowed suit.

The par­ty suf­fered a de­feat in the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­sults of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) NTA re­ceived 5,860 votes over­all in the 17 seats con­test­ed.

De­spite the se­ries of res­ig­na­tions fol­low­ing the de­feat, oth­er par­ty mem­bers main­tained it’s still op­er­a­tional and deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Com­man­der Nor­man Din­di­al will now be in­ter­im leader.

NTA said, “The Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) wish­es to of­fi­cial­ly in­form the pub­lic, our sup­port­ers, and the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty that our Po­lit­i­cal Leader, Gary Grif­fith has ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion, ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly. This de­ci­sion, though deeply sig­nif­i­cant, was made with thought­ful re­flec­tion and in the spir­it of ac­count­abil­i­ty and in­tegri­ty that has al­ways guid­ed the NTA’s lead­er­ship. Along­side the res­ig­na­tion of the Po­lit­i­cal Leader, sev­er­al mem­bers of the Gov­er­nance Team have al­so stepped down from their re­spec­tive po­si­tions.”

The NTA said in­ter­nal elec­tions for all gov­er­nance team po­si­tions are sched­uled to take place on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 5, 2025.

When Guardian Me­dia reached out to Grif­fith, he said step­ping down was the right thing to do.

He al­so re­vealed his fo­cus will now be on his wife, Nicole, who was di­ag­nosed with can­cer.

Grif­fith said, “It has been a very dif­fi­cult pe­ri­od for my­self try­ing to share my time deal­ing with my fam­i­ly’s sit­u­a­tion with my wife. It will al­low me now to spend much more time try­ing to deal with that mat­ter. That is my sole pri­or­i­ty now.”

But the tim­ing of his ex­it from NTA comes in the mid­dle of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s de­lib­er­a­tions for op­po­si­tion sen­a­tors.

Asked if he’s open to re­turn­ing to the Sen­ate, Grif­fith said he does not be­lieve he’s earned the seat.

“I’ve stepped down from the po­lit­i­cal are­na at least for now. So there’s noth­ing about Gary Grif­fith be­ing in­volved in Par­lia­ment. I’ve been there. I’ve done that. Con­grat­u­la­tions to all per­sons who are go­ing to be sen­a­tors for the op­po­si­tion and for the gov­ern­ment. I had an op­por­tu­ni­ty as a min­is­ter of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and it was the high­est re­duc­tion in se­ri­ous crime in 31 years. I was able to do a lot in that pe­ri­od… I don’t op­er­ate like that. I earn my seat. I have done noth­ing to de­serve be­ing seat as a mem­ber of the op­po­si­tion and that has nev­er been my in­ten­tion.”